Edition
D-Zero |
Post Reply 
|
Page <1 1314151617 159> |
| Author |
 Share Topic Printable Version Delicious Digg Facebook Furl Google MySpace Newsvine reddit StumbleUpon Translate Twitter Windows Live Yahoo Bookmarks Topic Search  Topic Options
|
|
Washy71 
Groupie 
Joined: 01 Jul 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 56 |
 Post Options
 Quote Reply
 Topic: D-ZeroPosted: 16 Mar 16 at 9:29am |
|
|
This thread has been quiet for a while! Thought I'd post a video that a friend of the Class Association put together for the recent Dinghy Show.
Edited by Washy71 - 16 Mar 16 at 10:02am |
||
|
D-Zero GBR71
|
||
 |
||
|
jeffers
Really should get out more 
Joined: 29 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3048 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 20 Jul 15 at 8:21am |
|
|
Just a note to let people know that the D-Zero class website is currently in the process of switching providers so it may be down or respond intermittently for 48 hours whilst the new provider picks everything up.
|
||
|
Paul
---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
||
|
||
|
craiggo
Really should get out more
Joined: 01 Apr 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1810 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 06 Mar 15 at 6:33pm |
|
|
If you know your stuff in a Laser, your mainsheet is attached to the block on the end of the boom by threading it through the becket and tieing a figure of eight. When you want to land on a leeshore, you position yourself directly upwind of where you want to land and luff up. Grab the figure of eight and untie it and pull all the mainsheet through. Bear away and the rig will rotate around so that the boom is pointing over the bow. Aim straight for the shore and jump out before you hit it. It's a nice controlled way of bringing a Laser ashore.
|
||
|
||
|
fab100
Really should get out more
Joined: 15 Mar 11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1005 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 06 Mar 15 at 3:28pm |
|
|
Here's a fact - more car magazines are bought by people after making a purchase to retro-jsutify their buying decision ten before. Or perhaps that's another urban legend
|
||
|
||
|
Rupert
Really should get out more
Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 06 Mar 15 at 3:24pm |
|
|
"Ugly" we might be able to agree on "bad", probably not.
And no, I wasn't referring to either of the *eros! I was thinking of one boat I saw at the Show - can anyone guess which? |
||
|
Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
|
||
|
||
|
jeffers
Really should get out more
Joined: 29 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3048 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 06 Mar 15 at 3:05pm |
|
I will freely admit I am a bit of a boat tart and I have only sailed 1 boat that I didn't personally enjoy in the last few years. I won't name the boat but I have since sailed another example of it and whilst it was better it definitely still felt 'wrong' to me. The guy who has bought it loves though. So whether there is a truly 'bad' new boat out there is probably subjective....
|
||
|
Paul
---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
||
|
||
|
sargesail
Really should get out more
Joined: 14 Jan 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1459 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 06 Mar 15 at 3:02pm |
|
That's it. No need to email him - just scroll down through the blog to a really good piece on lee-shore recovery in a variety of boats.
|
||
|
||
|
JimC
Really should get out more
Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6662 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 06 Mar 15 at 2:07pm |
|
Mind you compared to some of the rubbish that used to be about 30 or 40 years ago there probably *hasn't* been a bad boat tested... I can think of plenty of boats that haven't or wouldn't suit me suited me recently, but actual bad boats? Grief even the IMHO dreadful 5 Tonner still has its proponents... Edited by JimC - 06 Mar 15 at 2:09pm |
||
|
||
|
jeffers
Really should get out more
Joined: 29 Mar 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3048 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 06 Mar 15 at 1:10pm |
|
|
I believe he takes the knot of from the end of the boom (on the Zero) which allows the mast to freely rotate (I could be wrong though). Drop him an email I am sure that he will reply.
|
||
|
Paul
---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
||
|
||
|
Woodbotherer
Posting king 
Joined: 11 Dec 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 192 |
Post Options
Quote Reply
Posted: 06 Mar 15 at 1:08pm |
|
|
Interesting review if only for wanting to know what the expression 'drop the knot' means when he was talking about launch recovery, that beach is pretty benign compared to ours but he was going on about this drop the knot technique in recovery so I'm now intrigued.
|
||
|
||
|
Post Reply
|
Page <1 1314151617 159> |
| Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |
Bulletin Board Software by Web Wiz Forums® version 9.665y
Copyright ©2001-2010 Web Wiz
Change your personal settings, or read our privacy policy
Copyright ©2001-2010 Web Wiz
Change your personal settings, or read our privacy policy